The NFC East Is Historically Bad. How Much Worse Can It Get?
The most tragic injury of the NFL season — so far — had to be the one Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott suffered Sunday against the New York Giants. Prescott, who leads the league in passing...
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The Most Important NFL Games Of Week 17
Throughout the season, we’ve usually had a little blurb highlighting the most significant and/or interesting game of each week. But for the upcoming week in the NFL, there are far too many meaningful...
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The Cowboys Are Putting It All Together. Is This Their Year?
The 2021 NFL season marks the 26th since the Dallas Cowboys last made a Super Bowl, improbably giving a franchise known as “America’s Team” the league’s 11th-longest active drought. Through 1995, a...
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Which Of The NFL’s Top Teams Have Been Lucky, And Which Are Actually Good?
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): In Week 6 of this NFL season, London fans got an exciting finish in the excruciating matchup of Jaguars vs. Dolphins, the Cowboys and Patriots took a wild...
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Who Needs A Franchise Quarterback When You Have Mike White And Cooper Rush?
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Backup quarterback in the NFL is a strange gig. I don’t mean the young first-rounders whose teams are invested in their futures. I’m talking about the other...
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Week 9’s Winner: Josh Allen. Week 9’s Loser: Josh Allen.
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Sunday gave us some wild outcomes in the NFL. The Dallas Cowboys put up goose eggs for the first three quarters of a dismantling at the hands of the Denver...
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Where Have All The Good NFL Teams Gone?
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Another week in the NFL, another upset by a double-digit underdog. Welcome to the club, Houston! Upsets happen, of course, and perhaps Tennessee was just...
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We Remain Baffled By The NFL’s So-Called Contenders
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Fortunes swung wildly during Week 14 of the NFL season, with a few games making a big dent in some teams’ playoff hopes while boosting others. Three games...
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We Finally Have Some Playoff Teams … And We Don’t Believe In Any Of Them
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): At long last, we finally have ourselves a playoff picture in the NFL — and it only took until Week 16. Six teams have clinched playoff berths, and though...
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Who’s In, Who’s Out And Who Has Us Worried As We Barrel Toward The NFL Playoffs
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): It’s so strange that 17 weeks of play are in the books and we’re not yet done with the regular season, but the NFL clearly has a lot more to give us this...
View ArticleWhat To Watch For In The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend
After an exhilarating week of games closed out the NFL’s extra-long 2021 regular season, the playoff bracket could deliver another helping of chaos. Most (though not all) of the teams left standing...
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The NFL’s Wild-Card Weekend Was Weirder And Dumber Than It Had Any Right To Be
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Though only a third of the games were competitive on the first weekend of the NFL playoffs, we still got plenty of weirdness across the board. An...
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Our NFC Projections Foresee A Battle Of The Bays
NFL Our NFC Projections Foresee A Battle Of The Bays By Josh Hermsmeyer Sep. 8, 2022, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO / GETTY IMAGES In the 18 Super Bowls played between 2002 and 2019, Tom...
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Week 2 Gave Us All The Epic NFL Comebacks We Could Handle
NFL Week 2 Gave Us All The Epic NFL Comebacks We Could Handle A FiveThirtyEight Chat Sep. 19, 2022, at 2:04 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor):...
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The Jets Have The MVP, The Browns Shouldn’t Switch QBs, And We Want An Entire...
NFL The Jets Have The MVP, The Browns Shouldn't Switch QBs, And We Want An Entire Division In The Playoffs A FiveThirtyEight Chat Nov. 28, 2022, at 3:22 PM maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): Happy...
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The Dolphins Take Another L, The Lions Grab Another W, And The NFL Playoff...
NFL The Dolphins Take Another L, The Lions Grab Another W, And The NFL Playoff Picture Gets Clearer A FiveThirtyEight Chat Dec. 12, 2022, at 4:27 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY...
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How The Entire NFC East Can Make The Playoffs
NFL How The Entire NFC East Can Make The Playoffs By Andres Waters Dec. 14, 2022, at 12:28 PM As the New York Giants go, so do the NFC East’s odds of making history. DUSTIN SATLOFF / GETTY IMAGES It’s...
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We’re Still Processing Week 15’s Most Mind-Blowing Finishes
NFL We’re Still Processing Week 15’s Most Mind-Blowing Finishes A FiveThirtyEight Chat Dec. 19, 2022, at 4:26 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES maya (Maya Sweedler, editor):...
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Can The Dallas Cowboys Avoid Another Playoff Flop?
NFL Can The Dallas Cowboys Avoid Another Playoff Flop? By Andres Waters Dec. 22, 2022, at 6:00 AM As usual, the Cowboys are full of potential — and pitfalls. Courtney Culbreath / Getty Images Among...
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After A Surprisingly Tense Wild-Card Weekend, Are Blowouts Looming In The...
NFL After A Surprisingly Tense Wild-Card Weekend, Are Blowouts Looming In The Divisional Round? A FiveThirtyEight Chat Jan. 17, 2023, at 3:16 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES...
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